A New Jersey man has admitted to federal prosecutors that he used his standing within his Orthodox Jewish community to defraud investors out of more than $47 million with a Ponzi-like scheme and now faces a suit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over the conduct.
A New Jersey man has admitted to federal prosecutors that he used his standing within his Orthodox Jewish community to defraud investors out of more than $47 million with a Ponzi-like scheme and now faces a suit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over the conduct.
The Third Circuit on Thursday backed the dismissal of an antitrust suit alleging Pfizer Inc. and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. conspired to delay the market entry of a generic version of the cholesterol drug Lipitor, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing.
A New Jersey state senator called on the state attorney general's office this week to launch a new, independent investigation into Seton Hall University after a recent investigation by Ropes & Gray LLP cleared the school's president of wrongdoing regarding sexual abuse allegations within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.
Clothing-maker Lontex Corp. and Nike Inc. have agreed to put an end to their battle over a lower court's finding that the sportswear giant had to pay attorney fees in a trademark case, asking the Third Circuit to undo a decision that the case was exceptional.
A group of 21 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia accused the Trump administration on Thursday of illegally pressuring a nonprofit commercial driver database operator to hand over millions of Social Security numbers for immigration enforcement by threatening to cut funding for noncompliance.
The Third Circuit backed the dismissal of a Black biomedical factory director's race bias suit claiming a safety inspector targeted him with unnecessary audits out of discrimination, finding Thursday that the inspector's prickly personality did not amount to illegal conduct.
New Jersey cannabis regulators filed a notice Thursday that they would appeal a federal court's recent ruling that a state rule requiring marijuana businesses enter into labor peace agreements with unions in order to secure a license is preempted by federal law.
While government contracts law and the hardcore scene may seem entirely unrelated, in my experience, both are about community, focus, being prepared for the unexpected and managing chaos, says Isaac Natter at Fluet.
An advocacy organization against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives filed an antitrust complaint with the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday, accusing Sponsors for Educational Opportunity of engaging in anticompetitive practices by allegedly colluding on DEI metrics and falsely advertising its program.
A Florida federal judge on Thursday tossed a defamation claim against a Baker Botts LLP patent attorney after agreeing with a magistrate judge's conclusion that an inventor had not shown that the lawyer's comments to a reporter were defamatory.
A New York City Bar Association committee concluded in a policy paper published Wednesday that artificial intelligence tools "may assist legal work but cannot substitute for professional legal judgment," calling for a national framework to be built into the Model Rules of Professional Conduct governing its use.
President Donald Trump has announced that he's looking to elevate Judge Lee Rudofsky of the Eastern District of Arkansas to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
A law firm representing State Farm has admitted that its pretrial motions contained citations to nonexistent cases and legal quotes, errors that were seemingly "hallucinations" generated by AI software designed for lawyers and caught by the plaintiff's attorneys as they prepared for trial in a California state court case about fire damage coverage.
By the end of the month, there will be about 500 attorneys and staff in the U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division, with more to come as time goes on.
A "staffing disruption" at the Pittsburgh law firm J.P. Ward & Associates led the firm to request a stay of a labor-trafficking case against hotels in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, after the firm was reduced to one attorney and two staff members, according to court filings.
